Valley journalist Joe Watson lived a double life as a gambling addict and stickup man. Having fulfilled his debt to society, the former Phoenix New Times reporter has a new passion: prison reform.

Chiropractor Dr. Jimmy Yuan disarms pro athletes with humor and a fix-it approach to pain

In a swift two years, activist Shayna Stevens converted to Islam and rose to prominence in the Council on American-Islamic Relations Arizona. Is it tokenism, or something more?

In his famous collection of children’s poetry Where the Sidewalk Ends, late author Shel Silverstein writes of a fellow who collects bits of string, dolls with broken heads, copper keys that fit no locks, airplane models and broken bottles.

Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams and her son, Phoenix Sun big man Alan Williams, have had a heck of a year – one that was two-plus decades in the making.

Tempe comics tycoon Todd McFarlane celebrates 25 years of his breakout hit Spawn with a new TV series and movie.

On the 10-year anniversary of the infamous TV news helicopter crash over Steele Indian School Park, colleagues and family members of the victims reflect on the tragedy that changed Valley newsgathering – and their lives – forever.

The Cognoscente Next Door

Every great city deserves great art,” Amada Cruz says. And the Sybil Harrington Director of the Phoenix Art Museum is happy to report that Phoenix does have great art.

Smack-Talking Pot-reneur

The last career former pro wrestler Sean Morley expected to embrace after leaving the ring was “cannabis activist.” As a young man growing up in Canada, Morley – whobody-slammed under the name Val Venis for nearly 11 years as a WWE regular – was strongly against marijuana use.

Gentleman Muckraker

“We’ve become too acclimated to fair and balanced. Our job is to call bullshit ‘bullshit.’” That’s Stuart Warner, speaking with characteristic bluntness about journalists’ raison d’être and his MO as Phoenix New Times’ new editor-in-chief.